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TIL the Asteroid Belt is the remains of a planet that never formed, and not the leftover debris of a planet that was destroyed.

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b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.
rNRM1 TIL of sacrificial anodes. They are normally Zinc blocks that are attached to a ships hull. They have a more anodic, i.e. less noble, potential than steel when immersed in sea water, so they corrode away instead of the ships hull it is attached to. Once worn they can then be replaced.
9YXer TIL that, from 1933 to 1945, more than two-thirds of the faculty hired at many Historically Black Colleges and Universities were Jewish refugees who had come to the United States to escape from Nazi Germany.
Wk5Lo TIL When on tour, Queen would play their own version of Scrabble they called "Death Scrabble". They would have intense games through the night till morning.The highest single word laid down was by Brian, with the word Lacquers, worth 168 points. Freddie never forgave him for that.
VBmOp TIL about Poundbury, a experimental town/neighborhood created by then Prince Charles III, combining medieval, industrial, victorian, neoclassical an georgian architectural styles, with the intention to counter the monotonous architectural trends of the late 20th century